Keupp, Stefanie

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","85"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Cognition"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","92"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","147"],["dc.contributor.author","Keupp, Stefanie"],["dc.contributor.author","Bancken, Christin"],["dc.contributor.author","Schillmöller, Jelka"],["dc.contributor.author","Rakoczy, Hannes"],["dc.contributor.author","Behne, Tanya"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:52:48Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:52:48Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Children’s strong tendency to over-imitate – i.e., to reproduce causally irrelevant actions – presents a well-documented, yet puzzling, phenomenon. On first sight this instrumentally inefficient behavior seems maladaptive and different accounts have been put forward to explain it. Causal accounts claim that children are misled by an adult’s demonstration, mistake the superfluous actions as causally necessary, and therefore imitate them. Other accounts emphasize cognitive-motivational aspects underlying over-imitation, e.g. social motivations to affiliate with the model, or to adhere to normative conventions. Since all accounts predict the occurrence of over-imitation under typical conditions, different parameters and circumstances have to be considered to distinguish between them. Thus, we investigated children’s over-imitation and their spontaneous verbal reactions to a puppet’s behavior, in contexts in which a causally irrelevant action either led to the destruction of a valuable object belonging to the experimenter, or not. In addition, children saw the full action sequence being demonstrated either with an instrumental or a conventional focus. Causal accounts predict no flexibility across these contexts, because over-imitation is said to occur automatically. Normative accounts claim that different normative considerations affect children’s behavior and action parsing, and therefore predict different response patterns across conditions. We found that over-imitation was less frequent in costly and instrumental conditions. Children criticized the puppet for omitting irrelevant actions more often in the non-costly condition, but criticized her more often for performing irrelevant actions in the costly condition, often expressing their moral concern. The results support the rational normative action interpretation account of over-imitation."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.007"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151286"],["dc.identifier.pmid","26649758"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8073"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0010-0277"],["dc.title","Rational over-imitation: Preschoolers consider material costs and copy causally irrelevant actions selectively"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","392"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Journal of Experimental Child Psychology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","406"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","116"],["dc.contributor.author","Keupp, Stefanie"],["dc.contributor.author","Behne, Tanya"],["dc.contributor.author","Rakoczy, Hannes"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:52:50Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:52:50Z"],["dc.date.issued","2013"],["dc.description.abstract","Recent research has documented that children readily engage in overimitation, that is, the reproduction of causally irrelevant elements within a bigger action sequence. Different explanations have been put forward. Affiliation accounts claim that children overimitate to affiliate with the model. Causal confusion accounts claim that children mistakenly perceive causally irrelevant elements as causally relevant and, thus, imitate them. Normativity accounts claim that overimitation arises when children view causally irrelevant elements as an essential part of an overarching conventional activity. To test among these accounts, we had children watch a model produce some effect by performing a sequence of causally irrelevant and relevant acts, with the latter resulting in some effect. In two conditions, the model presented the action sequence as focused either more on the method or more on the goal, with the normativity account predicting that children should interpret the causally irrelevant element as essential more often in the method condition than in the goal condition. Three measures were used: (a) children’s own overimitation, (b) their spontaneous responses to a puppet engaging in or refraining from overimitation, and (c) their explicit judgments about the puppet’s behavior. Results revealed that overimitation was frequent in both conditions. In addition, however, children protested against the puppet only when she did not overimitate, they did so more in the method condition than in the goal condition, and they explicitly judged omission of the irrelevant actions to be a mistake in the method condition. These results are not readily compatible with affiliation and causal confusion accounts, and they speak in favor of normativity accounts."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.jecp.2013.07.002"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151307"],["dc.identifier.pmid","23933292"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8097"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0022-0965"],["dc.title","Why do children overimitate? Normativity is crucial"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]